170 ORD. VII. Sarmentacee. CISSAMPELOS PAREIRA, 
Geoffroy, and Lochner:‘ the first seems to think that it acts as a 
lithontriptic, but Geoffroy attributes its virtues to its power of dis- 
solving the indurated mucus to which the sabulous matter adheres. 
It has also been recommended in ischuria, ulcers of the bladder, 
fluor albus, rheumatism, jaundice, asthma, and some other chronic 
diseases. The accounts given of the successful employment of this 
root by the French writers, induced physicians to try its. effects in 
this country; but we find no remarkable instances of its efficacy 
recorded by British practitioners; and as a proof of its being fallen 
into disrepute,the Edinburgh College has expunged it, from the 
Materia Medica.£ The dose of the powdered root is from one 
scruple to two. Geoffroy directs two or three drams of the root to 
be bruised and boiled in a pint and a half of water till only a pint 
remains, which is to be divided into three doses. | 
* Lewis. Mat. Med. 1. c. in note (*) _ 
* And Bergius says, ‘‘ Certe vidi ego calculosos, arthritices & rheumaticos plures, 
qui satis diu usum ejus absque successu comtinuarunt.” Mat. Med. p, 815. 
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ASARUM EUROPEUM.. COMMON ASARABACCA. 
SYNONYMA. Asarum. Pharm. Lond: & Edinb. Bauh. Pin. 
p. 197. Gerard. Emac. p. 836. J. Bauh. Hist. vol. iii. p. 548. 
Ray Hist. p. 207. Synop.p. 158. Asarum vulgare. Park. Theat. 
p. 266. Asarum foliis reniformibus subhirsutis. Hall. Stirp. Helv. 
m. '647. Asarum Europeum. Withering. Bot. Arrang. p. 488. 
Smith Brit. 509. Flor. Dan. 633. 
Class Dodecandria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 589. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 3-s. 4-fidus, germini insidens. Cor. 0. Caps. 
coriacea, coronata. 
Sp. Ch. A. foliis reniformibus obtusis binis. 
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